Cinema City installs digital and 3D projectors

Israeli based Cinema City International is in the process of installing 50 digital projectors throughout is cinemas in Central Europe and Israel.
06-08-2008

Poland, Slovakia lead UPC growth

Dutch cable operator UPC Broadband posted second quarter growth in operating cash flow of €402 million, up 12% over 2007 results, led by Poland and Hungary.
06-08-2008

Wajda receives Estonian honor

President Ilves will decorate Polish film director Andrzej Wajda with the Terra Mariana Order, one of Estonia's highest state distinctions
06-08-2008

TV Malta holds top audience share

TV Malta (TVM) saw a rise in audience share during the second quarter of 2008, according to the Maltese Broadcasting Authority.
05-08-2008

Viasat to launch movie channel in Baltics

Viasat Broadcasting plans to launch a movie channel in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania on September 1.
05-08-2008

Baltic Film and Media School may relocate

The Baltic Film and Media School is considering a move from Estonia to Latvia, according to local news reports.
05-08-2008

Polish, Slovenian films to screen at Locarno

Malgoska Szumowska's 33 Scenes from Life will compete in the international competition at the 61st Locarno film festival, running august 6-16.
04-08-2008

CME reports 41% increase in Q2 revenues

Central European Media Enterprises (CME, www.cetv-net.com) announced net revenues for quarter two of 2008 increased 41%, to $305.4 million (197 million Euros), over 2007.
04-08-2008

Sweden's MTG buys Bulgarian channel Nova TV

Sweden's Modern Times Group, MTG (STO: MTGA, MTGB), announced the purchase of Bulgarian commercial channel Nova TV for 620 million Euros.
03-08-2008

CME acquires two Bulgarian stations

Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. ("CME") (Nasdaq/Prague Stock Exchange: CETV) announced the purchase of an 80% interest in two Bulgarian television channels, TV2 and Ring TV, for $172 million (110…
03-08-2008

Cyprus historical film goes into production

Guilt, a historically set fiction feature film, is set to go into production in Cyprus in early November, with Vassilis Mazomenos directing.
31-07-2008

Malta pushes for sound stages

Malta's film commissioner is promoting private investment in sound stages and expanding the country's reach for international film production.
30-07-2008

Antenna Hungaria wins 12-year digital licences

Hungary's National Communications Authority (NHH, www.nhh.hu) awarded a 12-year digital (terrestrial) broadcasting licence to French-owned Antenna Hungaria Rt. (AH, www.ahrt.hu), NHH announced on July 25.
29-07-2008

Sas sets sights on Stars of Eger

Tamas Sas will direct Stars of Eger, based on Geza Gardonyi's 1899 novel voted the most popular book in Hungary in 2005.
29-07-2008

Prima Primavera near completion

The English-Hungarian-Dutch-Bulgarian coproduction Prima Primavera (www.primaprimavera.com) is in postproduction, director Janos Edelenyi told FNE.
28-07-2008

Palace Cinemas offers live HD broadcast in Budapest multiplex

In an effort to beat the summer doldrums with creative solutions, Palace Cinemas (www.palacecinemas.hu) is offering live high-definition broadcasts of Formula One (www.formula1.com) races.
28-07-2008

Hungarian public broadcaster MTV lays off 86 staff

As part of a wide-scale restructuring, the 1700-staffer Hungarian state broadcaster Magyar Televizio (MTV, www.mtv.hu) will lay off 86 people in August, following last week's agreement with the employees' union.
28-07-2008

Rain of Children wins at Poland's Era New Horizons

Rain of the Children, an intimate docufiction directed by Vincent Ward, the famous filmmaker from New Zealand, has won the Grand Prix at the eight International ERA NEW HORIZONS Film…
28-07-2008

Cyprus festival profile on the rise

Cyprus Film Days International Film Festival is looking at an expanded 4th edition next year with a higher profile.
27-07-2008